Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of illustrations
Preface
Part I: Setting the scene
1. The medical marketplace, print culture and popular medicine
2. The genre of almanacs
3. 'Students of Astrology and Physick': the authors
4. 'Courteous Readers': the target audience
Part II: Structures of practice and knowledge
5.Astrology and almanacs
6. Astrological 'physick' and almanacs
6. 'To keep out disease': preventative medicine
7. 'A putting to and a taking away': remedial medicine
8. Nostrums for Sale: advertising and almanacs
9. 'The Care of the Brute Beast': astrological medicine for animals
Part III: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Louise Hill Curth is Reader in Medical History at the University of Winchester